Introducing you to the fundamentals of biological farming. After all, input costs trend steadily upward in "conventional" agriculture. Commodity prices continue to fluctuate wildly, diminishing predictable returns. Problems can seem out of control. This business of farming is complex and confusing.

Generations of farmers have successfully used this method. They knew how to work with the land. That's how they survived and thrived

Are Profits Possible?

You can reduce your input costs and increase your profits, while improving your soil and livestock health at the same time. That's what "bio-logical farming" is. It harnesses science and nature to create superior FARMING SYSTEM. It works WITH natural laws. If you need evidence that trying to overpower Nature doesn't work long-term, look at all the serious manmade ecological damage and destruction: foul or poison air, water, and food. Biological farming is the win-win way to produce food..."

Skilled biological farmers learn how to grow and make a lot of their own fertilizers, using animal and green manures. They learn what fertilizers are best to use and which are environmentally-safe. These fertilizers work with the beneficial organisms living in the soil.

Success will largely depend upon your ability to feed and increase these soil organisms. They make the soil alive and fertile, which also feeds your crops and forages. Two important parts of your soil are: (1) the organic particles that are a plant food reservoir, and (2) the living micro-organisms like bacteria, fungi, algae and the larger ones like earthworms. These organisms process and decompose the inert mineral and organic materials, thereby feeding your plants. To thrive and multiply, they need air, water, organic matter (food) and safety. Work with them successfully and your farm's natural fertility and productivity will escalate.

On a biological farm, you strive for BALANCE. It's the economic and ecological key to success. It provides all the elements to your crops in proper balance. The productivity of your soil can never be greater than the plant food element in least supply. You make these nutrients easily absorbable by the plant's roots. You manage your soil and crops to produce large root systems that recover nutrients, create an optimum home for soil organisms, and hold the soil in place.

N-P-K Shortcomings

Conventional synthetic N-P-K fertilizers have few or no secondary and trace elements, yet plants need at least 16 elements to grow and reproduce. Continued use of high N-P-K levels can result in trace element deficiencies and other in balances.